Not really any hoops, just have to know what days they schedule "practice" days. The main issue is you have to have sufficient people, enough for multiples in the pits and on the line. This is a safety rule.

Sac Valley/Folsom Shooting Club is, without a doubt, the best shooting facility in CA. There are lots of uses on the 1000 yard range, everything from vintage military, F class and space rifles. Plenty of opportunity for you.

__________________Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway, "On the Blue Water," Esquire, April 1936

I would think Sunnyvale Gun club better, closer to me and well run, nice people. I shot at Chabot also, indeed nice place.

San Jose public range has 200 yards, please check the website for the date of open and call in advance also. I've went there expecting to shoot at the 200 yards, but was told it is closed that day (web says it should be open) and I should call in advance.

Best range in the bay area is the Chabot Gun Club in Castro Valley, pretty forested area, only 100 yards though but I'd check it if I were you.

And unsafe, what with the rangemasters ending ceasefires with people still downrange

I vote for panoche also for 1000 yards. I have a 1300 and 1770 yard range out there. Just cruze google earth along the main and side roads, you'll eventually find a good spot to investigate when you drive out there, including GPS coordinates, tracks, street-level views, etc.

Panoche for me is EXACTLY 2 hours by car if we take hwy 5, and if we take little panoche road to Tres Pinos it's 1 hr 50 minutes.

And unsafe, what with the rangemasters ending ceasefires with people still downrange

I vote for panoche also for 1000 yards. I have a 1300 and 1770 yard range out there. Just cruze google earth along the main and side roads, you'll eventually find a good spot to investigate when you drive out there, including GPS coordinates, tracks, street-level views, etc.

Panoche for me is EXACTLY 2 hours by car if we take hwy 5, and if we take little panoche road to Tres Pinos it's 1 hr 50 minutes.

When I get my new Savage 110BA .338LM scoped, I'd love to see the 1300 and 1700 range. I'm not ready for sanctioned events yet and need to get several hundred rounds down range first. I drove out there the other day and there were a few people shooting in all directions. They were acting like cowboys and being generally uncool so I was reluctand to drive past them.

Too tacticool for me. I don't even like the sunshade on my scope, I leave it off.

But it IS a dream to shoot. The brake is shockingly effective. Shockingly. You want a fun time sometime, nab some crush washers from Brownells and take the brake off. Doesn't recoil too bad at all. Like a 20 ga. But once the brake is back on it's easy to see just how effective that design is.

I've got dozens of traditional hunting rifles, shotguns and pistols but have resisited the whole tactical thing for decades. Slowly, I am moving that direction for home defense (M&P 45 instead of Colt Python) and now target shooting (100BA, AR10, AR15 instead of various Rem700, Rem40XB, etc.) I'm not abandoning the traditional, just branching out into new territory.

Amazing how small that 111 looks compared to the 110. I know there will be days when I regret buying such a big gun....well, maybe not

good luck. I put down a group 1/2" tall and 2 inches wide at 320 yards on a rickety table with that rest up there with handloads the last time I went to Panoche. I'm no long range shooter. The accuracy potential is there.

good luck. I put down a group 1/2" tall and 2 inches wide at 320 yards on a rickety table with that rest up there with handloads the last time I went to Panoche. I'm no long range shooter. The accuracy potential is there.

And unsafe, what with the rangemasters ending ceasefires with people still downrange

I vote for panoche also for 1000 yards. I have a 1300 and 1770 yard range out there. Just cruze google earth along the main and side roads, you'll eventually find a good spot to investigate when you drive out there, including GPS coordinates, tracks, street-level views, etc.

Panoche for me is EXACTLY 2 hours by car if we take hwy 5, and if we take little panoche road to Tres Pinos it's 1 hr 50 minutes.

So is it BLM land out there then? I've taken the road from Holister over the hills and into Fresno before and I've never seen anyone out there shooting. Maybe its time to look at it a bit closer.

ECA. I left DIYMA when npdang did in 2008. There are some great audio messageboards left. DIYMA is not one of them. Sadly, the loss of ECA scattered too many experts who have not been able to join together under a common banner.

google panoche. Check it out on google maps or google earth. Then hop in your car with a buddy, your guns, and some standing targets and drive out there. You don't have to go far in or get off the main road to find suitable locations to set up shop.

google panoche. Check it out on google maps or google earth. Then hop in your car with a buddy, your guns, and some standing targets and drive out there. You don't have to go far in or get off the main road to find suitable locations to set up shop.

And this is BLM land? Any where I can check for info on the legalities of shooting there? Also does CPRC operate at all in NorCal, or is all the action down south? Thanks,

Dunno anything about CPRC, but seriously, google panoche. Just type it into google. I'm telling you, a google of panoche is gonna answer everything. Between what you find in google, when you google panoche, by typing panoche into google, after calling the Hollister BLM and saying "hey, I hear I can target shoot on panoche, is that true?", and after reading my recommendation in post 23 on how to accomplish the deed, you'll be totally set.

Not really any hoops, just have to know what days they schedule "practice" days. The main issue is you have to have sufficient people, enough for multiples in the pits and on the line. This is a safety rule.

Sac Valley/Folsom Shooting Club is, without a doubt, the best shooting facility in CA. There are lots of uses on the 1000 yard range, everything from vintage military, F class and space rifles. Plenty of opportunity for you.

And this is BLM land? Any where I can check for info on the legalities of shooting there? Also does CPRC operate at all in NorCal, or is all the action down south? Thanks,

-Freq

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Originally Posted by Whiterabbit

Dunno anything about CPRC, but seriously, google panoche. Just type it into google. I'm telling you, a google of panoche is gonna answer everything. Between what you find in google, when you google panoche, by typing panoche into google, after calling the Hollister BLM and saying "hey, I hear I can target shoot on panoche, is that true?", and after reading my recommendation in post 23 on how to accomplish the deed, you'll be totally set.

That, or I completely misunderstood your question.

(try "panoche BLM" as the keywords and hitting "im feeling lucky")

Hmmmmm, I think he might have a hard time with a google search, using keyword Panoche. Maybe , we are all better off telling everyone that Panoche is closed down, they don't allow shooting, and so on, and we can have the place all to ourselves.

ECA. I left DIYMA when npdang did in 2008. There are some great audio messageboards left. DIYMA is not one of them. Sadly, the loss of ECA scattered too many experts who have not been able to join together under a common banner.

There's only one whiterabbit.

I had a feeling it was you. I had a Nissan Altima with a full DLS sound system in my car. It's nice to run into you on this forum here. I guess we have common interests. I'm saving up money right now for a long range build after I finish up a few more AR builds I have in the works.

We shoot 50bmg's to 2300 yards at Cow Mountain recreation area two hours north of the golden gate bridge.I would pass on Sacramento.Its a great facility but some there are not as nice as others.
Jim O'connel is the greatest guy there and his morals are beyond reproach but not everyone is Jim O'connel..